Absent Food in Poverty
Varadaraja V Raman argues in "Food: Its Many Aspects In Science, Religion, and Culture" that the "Absence of food can occur under two conditions: voluntary and involuntary" (969), the latter being what I will explore in this post to its extremity through the focus on poverty and not being able to afford foods to ensure survival, let alone to enjoy. Although "The Absence of Appetite" cannot specifically be applied to this post, as those suffering in poverty certainly have an appetite for food, I will still explore absent food and its many manifestations, including absent food under the rubric of deceit and how those in poverty often fall victim to unfortunate crimes of Adulteration. Sharman Apt Russell states a staggering statistic in Hunger: An Unnatural History, that "About 800 million chronically malnourished people live in the world" (207). Although the poverty rate has improved significantly in the UK over the last ten years and food ba...